CONTENTS.
PART I.
Monuments of Christian Art, from the Second to the Eighteenth Century, illustrating the gradual Development Of The Cultus Of The Virgin Mary Pp. 1-63
PART II.
Monuments of Christian Art having reference to the Supremacy claimed for the See of Rome 65-111
PART III.
The Autun Inscription, having reference tg the Sacraments of Baptism and of Holy Communion, and to the State of the Faithful after Death 113-188
Appendix 189-223
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
P. 13. [Woodcut.] Figure of an Orante (male). From the Cemetery of SS. Marcellinus and Petrus. (Aringhi R. S. tom. ii. p. iti.)
P. 14. [Woodcut.] Ornamented Glass, with Male and Female Oranti.
P. 22. [Woodcut.] The Adoration of our Lord by the Magi. From the Cemetery of SS. Marcellinus and Petrus. (Aringhi R. S. t. ii. p. 117.
P. 24. [Woodcut] The Holy Family. [For another interpretation of. the Picture see p. 25.] From the Cemetery of S. Priscilla.
P. 37. The Adoration of the Magi. From a Mosaic in the Church of S. Maria Maggiore at Rome, in its original state, circ. 438 a.d. From a Drawing in a Collection formed for Pope Clement XI, hitherto unpublished.
Plate I. The Ascension. From a Syriac MS. of the Gospels written a.d. 586. (See ' Vestiarium Christianum,' p. 238.)
Plate II. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary. From the Church of St. Clement at Rome, circ, 850 a.d.
Plate III. The Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven : Popes Calixtus II. and Anastasius IV. kneeling at her feet. (12th century.)
P. 63. [Woodcut.] The ancient Mosaic of Xystus III. in the Church of S. Maria Maggiore at Rome, as altered in the 18th century to suit modem Roman ideas.
Plate IV. The Diptych of St. Paul. [The more important of the two leaves of this Diptych is more perfectly reproduced, as a photograph, in the frontispiece to 'Vestiarium Christianum.'
The Book of the Gospels in the hands of the Bishop (supposed to be such) is there clearly seen. In the photolithograph of this volume it has been accidentally obscured.]
Plate V. Fresco representing St. Cornelius Papa and St. Cyprian.
Plate VI. The Frescoes of the Triclinium Lateranum.
P. 96. [Woodcut.] St. Peter bestowing the Pallium on Leo III. and the Vexillum of the Empire upon Charlemagne. From the Collection of Pope Clement XI.
Plate VII. The Donation of Constantine, and his (supposed) Baptism by Sylvester, Bishop of Rome.
Plates VII. and VIII. The Coronation of the Emperor Sigismund. The Council of Florence. From the Alti Relievi on the Gates of St. Peter's at Rome, executed by command of Pope Eugenius IV.
Plate IX. The Autun Inscription.
P. 123. [Woodcut.] The Episcopal Ring of St. Amulph, Bishop of Metz. (6th century.) The basket (containing a fish) there represented closely resembles some still used by labourers in central France.
P. 143. [Woodcut.] Capital of a Column in the Baptistery of the Church of St. Germain des Pnfs at Paris. The original church dated from the 6th century. The present church, the oldest in P^ris, is mainly of the 12th century; but many of the capitals and shafts belonging to the earlier church have been used ii/the construction. -
P. 144. [Woodcut.] The Fish-God. From an ancient Gem.
P. 147. [Woodcut.] Phoenician and Cyzicene Coins, presenting the type from which the Ichthyography of Autun, and of St. Germain des Pres, appears to have been derived.
P. 149. [Woodcut.] Small Figure (nth century) of (? a Priest or Bishop) one holding in his hands a Chalice, on which rests a Fish. Found at Autun.


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